Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1370 - 1424)

                                                                                              

Annunciation

1410-1415

Monaco (birth name: Piero di Giovanni) was a marvelous Gothic Artist. And, as most artists from that long bygone time, we know very little about him. Though we do know that as he aged the Early Renaissance style began to emerge, which he to some extent rejected, never utilizing the rising-in-popularity linear perspective. His paintings are full of vivid characterizations and that wonderfully strange and potent symbolism  that defined, to some extent, Gothic Art.

The Beheading of St. Catherine of Alexandria

1394-1395

Diptych: St. Jerome

1420

Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints

1414

The Meeting Between St. James the Major and Hermogenes